Some books in my Amazon orders list from last year, which mostly I read of the last year or two.
Danny Meyer on Service
Disney on Service
Leander Kahney – Inside Steve’s Brain
Drucker, Effective Executive
Six Thinking Hats, de Bono
Power and Struggle – Gene Sharp
Taichi Ohno, Worklplace Management
Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic
Everything is Negotiable
The Challenger Sale
Letters to a Young Contrarian, Hitchens
End of Education, Postman
The Sellout – A Novel, Beatty
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe (didn’t)
A Splendid Exchange, Bernstein
Elementary Particles, Houellebecq
Nonviolent Communication, Rosenberg
Polya, How to Solve It
The Last Samurai, De Witt
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Kandel
The Passion According to GH
How to Say It, Maggio
Wittgenstein’s Mistress, Markson
This is Not a Novel, Markson
Cubed, Saval
Rings of Saturn, Sebald
Bewar of Pity, Zweig
Things to make in the 4th dimension, Parker
Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, Whyte
Story, McKee
Jung, Man and His Symbols
Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces
History of RocknRoll in Ten Songs, Marcus
Team Secrets of the Navy SEALs, Needham
LEadership Lessons of the Navy Seals, Cannon
The Innovators, Isaacson
Coup d’Etat, handbook. Luttwak
History of Time, Hawking
Elegant Universe, Greene
Fabric of the Cosmos, Greene
Parallel Worlds, Kaku
How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand
Just In Time, Ohno
Scrum, by Sutherland
End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin
Beyond Beef, Rifkin
Zero Marginal Cost Society, Rifkin
to Explain the World, Weinberg
Book in a Box Method, Tucker Max
Smartcuts, Shane Snow
Chase Chance and Creativity, the Lucky Art – JH Austin
Virtual Freedom, Ducker
$100 Startup, Guillebeau
The Two Second Advantage, Ranadive and Maney
Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe
History of the Idea of Progress, Nisbet
Why Read Moby-Dick, Philbrick
Passage to India, Forster
Idea of Progress, JB Bury
Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler
Everything is Negotiable, Kennedy
Newton Principia
The Second Machine Age, McAfee and B*
Exponential Organizations, Ismail
Zero to One, Thiel
Patterns of Entrepreneurship Management, Kaplan
Snow Crash, Stephenson
Bold, Diamandis
Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu and Robinson
Rational Optimist, Ridley
Superforecasting, Tetlock
Sapens, Harari
High Tech Startup, Nesheim
Three Body Problem, Liu
Lost Art of Find Our Way, Huth
To Sell is Human, Dan Pink
Disciplined Entrepreneurship, Aulet
Woody Allen, Without Feathers, Getting Even, Side Effects
Born Standing Up, Steve Martin
Blood Meridian, McCarthy
Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Postman
The Antichrist, Nietzsche
Human, all too human, Nietzsche
Zarathustra, N
1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners
The Chess Tactics Workbook
Swami Vivekananda, contemporary reader, Paranjape
The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the 21st Century
Work Smarter, Loper
Everybody Paddles, Archer
Finding Startup Jobs, John Gannon
The Patrick Melrose Novels, St. Aubyn
Smarter, Dan Hurley
High as the Horses Bridles, Scott Cheshire
More than Human, Ramez Naam
The Seventh Sense, Josh Cooper Ramo
Infinite Resource, Naam
Singularity is Near, Kurzweil
Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurzweil
How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil
100 Ways to Improve Your Writing, Provost
Business Adventures, Brooks
Essential Drucker, Drucker
Managing Oneself, Drucker
The Mote in God’s Eye, Niven
Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson, Bandler, Grinder
Philgraphics, Carreras
Short Century, Gerrard
The Inner Game, Lawson
Trance-Formations, Grinder, John, Bandler, Richard
In China’s Shadow, Reed Hundt
the Chicago Handbook for Teachers
Simple, Siegel and Etzkorn
Speedboat, Renata Adler
Devil’s Plaything, Richtel
Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier
Memoirs of a Non-enemy Combatant, Gilvarry
NW, Zadie Smith
Delirious New York, Koolhaas
Balls, Tepper
Gutenberg the Geek, Jarvis
College, What it Was, Is and Should Be, Delbanco
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
100 Essential things…Math Explains, Barrow
Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre
Infinite Jest, Wallace
How We Think, Dewey
Child and the Curriculum, Dewey
Democracy and Education, Dewey